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  • Furness, Horace Howard. A new variorum edition of Shakespeare. various editions in drstx, ugstx, szstx, and bostx PR2753 .F5 1963
    
         v. 1. Romeo and Juliet. 1871.--v. 2. Macbeth. 1873.--v. 3-4. Hamlet. 1877.--
         v. 5. King Lear. 1880.--v. 6. Othello. [c1886]--v. 7. The merchant of Venice. 1888.--
         v. 8. As you like it. 1890.--v. 9. The tempest. 1892.--v. 10. A midsommer night's dreame. 1895.--
         v. 11. The winter's tale. 1898.--v. 12. Much adoe about nothing. 1899.--
         v. 13. Twelfe night, or, What you will. 1901.--v. 14. Loues labour's lost. 1904.--
         [v. 15] The tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra. 1907.--
         [v. 16] The tragedy of Richard the Third: with the landing of Earle Richmond, and the battell at Bosworth field. 1908.--
         [v. 17] The tragedie of Ivlivs Cfsar. 1913.--  [v. 18] The tragedie of Cymbeline. 1913.--
         [v. 19] The life and death of King John. 1919.--[v. 20] The tragedie of Coriolanus. 1928.-- 
         [v. 21] Henry the Fourth, pt. 1. 1936.--[v. 22] The second part of Henry the Fourth, 1940.-- 
         [v. 23] The poems: Venus and Adonis. Lucrece. The passionate pilgrim. The phoenix and the turtle. A lover's complaint. 1938.--
         [v. 24] The sonnets, v. 1.--[v. 25] The sonnets, v. 2.--[v. 26] Troilus and Cressida.--
         [v. 27] Richard the second
      * This series has the best notes on the individual plays. 
    

  • Adams, John Cranford. The Globe playhouse: its design and equipment. Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1985.
    * drstx PR2920 .A38 1985

  • Berry, Herbert. Shakespeare's playhouses; with illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. New York, NY : AMS, 1987.
    drstx PN2596.L6 B47 1987

  • Bevington, David. Acting Is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984. drstx PR2997.G4 B48 1984

  • Corey, Irene. The mask of reality; an approach to design for theatre. Anchorage, Ky., Anchorage Press [1968].
    drstx PN2091.S8 C627

  • David, Richard. Shakespeare in the theatre. Cambridge [Eng.] ; Cambridge University Press, 1978.
    drstx PR3100 .D38

  • Davis, Jim. Reflecting the audience : London theatregoing, 1840-1880. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2001.
    drstx PN2596.L6 D38 2001

  • Griffiths, Trevor R., ed. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    drstx PR 2827.M53 1996

  • Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    drstx PN2596.L6 G87 1996

  • Hainaux, Rene. Stage design throughout the world, 1970-75. New York : Theatre Arts Books, 1976.
    drstx PN2091.S8 H23 1976

  • __________. Stage design throughout the world since 1960. New York, Theatre Arts Books [1973, c1972].
    drstx PN2091.S8 H23 1973

  • Halio, Jay L. A midsummer night's dream. Manchester [England]; Manchester University Press ; c1994.
    drstx PR2827 .H29 1994

  • Hodges, C. Walter (Cyril Walter). The Globe restored; a study of the Elizabethan theatre. New York, Coward-McCann. multiple publication dates
    * drstx 792.0942 H665g

  • ___________. Enter the whole army : a pictorial study of Shakespearean staging, 1576-1616. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    drstx PR3095 .H59 1999

  • Joseph, Bertram Leon. Acting Shakespeare. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1969.
    drstx PR3091 .J6 1969

  • Kelly, Francis Michael. Shakespearian costume for stage and screen. London: Black, 1970.
    drstx PR3091 .K4 1970

  • Kennedy, Dennis. Looking at Shakespeare : a visual history of twentieth-century Performance. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
    drstx PR3100 .K46 1993

  • Knight, George Wilson. Shakespearian production : with especial reference to the tragedies. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, c1981.
    drstx PR3091 .K6 1981

  • Leiter, Samuel L., ed. Shakespeare around the globe : a guide to notable postwar revivals. New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
    drstx PR3100 .S53 1986

  • Novak, Elaine Adams. Staging Shakespearean theatre. Cincinnati, Ohio : Betterway Books, c2000.
    drstx PR3091 .N68 2000

  • Odell, George Clinton Densmore. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1920.
    drstx PR3091 .O4

  • On-stage studies / Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Boulder, Colo : University of Colorado, 1979.
    drstx PR3105 .C64 no.3- (Feb. 1979-)
    a magazine, which focuses on staging of Shakespeare's plays

  • Selbourne, David. The making of A midsummer night's dream : an eye-witness account of Peter Brook's production from first rehearsal to first night. London : Methuen, c1982.
    drstx PR2827.A2 S4 1982

  • Shakespeare bulletin. Norwood, N.J. : New York Shakespeare Society, 1983- .
    drstx PR3091 .B77 v.2 no.5/6- (Nov./Dec. 1983-)
    a magazine, which focuses on staging of Shakespeare's plays

  • Shattuck, Charles Harlen. Shakespeare on the American stage : from the Hallams to Edwin Booth. [Washington] : Folger Shakespeare Library, 1976-
    drstx PR3105 .S5 1-2.

  • Smith, Ronn. American set design 2. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1991.
    drstx PN2096.A1 S65 1991

  • Speaight, Robert. Shakespeare on the stage; an illustrated history of Shakespearian performance Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
    drstx PR3091 .S58 1973

  • Watkins, Ronald. On producing Shakespeare. With drawings by Maurice Percival. New York: B. Blom,1964.
    drstx PR2995 .W3 1964

     

  • Wickham, Glynne William Gladstone. Early English stages, 1300 to 1660. London, Routledge and Paul, [1959-c1972].
    * drstx PN2587 .W53 v.1, v2 pt.1-&2, v. 3
* Notes a particularly good source

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